“I take General Minihan seriously, in the sense that he’s obviously very involved in that we’re doing enough to prepare to deter the Chinese Communist Party,” Pompeo said.
“I think that’s what I was looking to get to. It’s hard to put deadlines on any of those things: it says 2025. “
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“But make no mistake, Xi Jinping is watching American weakness. Monitor for lack of determination. And if he sees an opportunity, he will seize it. “
Minihan is in charge of Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base near O’Fallon, Illinois, which oversees refueling and transportation-related aircraft. He reportedly wrote a note suggesting a war with China within two years.
“My gut tells me that we will fight in 2025,” Minihan wrote, adding that his officers instruct the military with “full understanding that unrepentant lethality is what matters most. “
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The Pentagon then sought to downplay the significance of the memo, according to the New York Post, with a spokesperson saying Minihan’s comments “are representative of the [Defense] Department’s views on China. “
In the “Special Report,” Pompeo also referred to Iran’s risk, which he said he highlighted recently after the arrest and indictment of 3 other Iranian-connected individuals in the attempted murder of an American journalist on American soil.
“We know that the regime, the ayatollah and now [President Ebrahim] Raisi, the butcher of Tehran, we know that those are other people who need to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, they are content to go after America next,” Pompeo said.
“We know they’re looking to hit Americans here at home. We saw that there were 3 other people charged, arrested here in the United States, for attempting to kill an American civilian. “
“They are bad actors and our project in the Trump administration is to deny them the wealth and resources to diminish their ability to devote terror and do the hard work, studies and progressive jobs of their weapons program. “
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Rafat Amirov of Iran and Khalid Mehdiyev, believed to be an Azerbaijani citizen living in Yonkers, New York, and Polad Omarov of the Czech Republic have been charged with murder for hire and laundering, according to a Justice Department indictment. . Formation
The Justice Department did not identify the victim by name, but only that he is a journalist and human rights activist in Brooklyn, New York, with a history of highlighting Iran’s human rights abuses and suppressing loose expression.
Later, journalist Masih Alinejad knew herself as the victim and said that “the country where I was born, Iran, the government needs to kill me, but my country often needs to protect me. “
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